Traditional Thai Street Food: Jim Jum

There is a small street side restaurant near the local mall that my Thai friend likes to go to which serves mainly traditional North Eastern Issan Thai food. One of their specialties is something called "Jim Jum".

"Jim Jum" is a traditional Thai hotpot which consists of a boiling clay urn of broth into which you cook various vegetables and usually pork parts (some offal) and an egg. It also is traditionally served with thin glass noodles. It is a very hearty dish which may be off putting to some due to the pork offal but if you want to experience real Thai street food, it is a must to try when you are here.

We also ordered some Duck "laarb", a minced meat salad and Som-Tam, spicy papaya salad which basically gets eaten with just about everything in Thailand.

Here are a few pics: I did not get pics of the restaurant, which is basically a bunch of tables set up with an awning to protect from the weather. During the day everything is folded up and walking past you would not even know a restaurant existed, but when unfurled, it is a full kitchen with a built in LCD TV to boot. There is also a resident family of cats that the owners seems to care for or at least feed and during the meal they freely roam about the patron's tables looking for scraps and a little attention.


Here are a few pics:

The "Jim Jum" vessel over flaming coals


Pork meat, offal, egg and liver

Som-Tam and Duck Laarb



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